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Still, two things make the Korean experiment more than a little noteworthy. The first is simply that their embryos didn't die. That's a very big deal; many experts were convinced that human clones would be impossibly fragile. Second, the scientists extracted embryonic stem cells from the blastocysts and...
The scientists' basic strategy was the same as in most post-Dolly cloning experiments: remove the nucleus of the egg, with its single set of chromosomes, and replace it with the nucleus of a mature cell, containing two sets (in this case, the mature nuclei came from cumulus cells, which...
“Please remember that this is an experiment, of which the neighbors are wary,” wrote Cabot House Master Jay Harris in an e-mail to the House announcing the change. “The 2 a.m. curfew will only remain in place if all of...
“I’m basically on-board with the experiment as an experiment,” Currier House Co-Master Joseph L. Badaracco said. “If students conduct themselves responsibly this could be extended beyond the spring.”
This much is wonderful: Norwegian filmmaker Bent Hamer's Kitchen Stories, in which he imagines an observer named Folke (Tomas Norstrom) perched in a sort of tennis umpire's chair, watching an old man named Isak (Joachim Calmeyer) doing his modest culinary chores. They're not allowed to talk; it...